From Crusty Little Kid to Superhuman Zombie - The Muddled History of Friday the 13th's Jason
Blogger Stacie Ponder's horror columns appear every Wednesday.
Hey, did you hear that they're remaking Friday the 13th? OMG, I know, right? There are news items left and right as the cast is slowly being revealed: Bright-eyed star here, that person from that one show there... Heck, even Jason has a face now: Derek Mears, the kinda weird looking dude from the Hills Have Eyes 2 remake. "But wait," you're saying, "Surely that Derek Mears fellow is a grown-up. In the original film, wasn't Jason a crusty little kid living on the bottom of Crystal Lake?" Why yes, observant reader, he certainly was. Hmm.
See, that Jason Voorhees is a tricky character. Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers are pretty straight-forward: One is a child murderer who was killed by a mob of angry parents and now he's some sort of magical burnt-up-looking guy who can kill you in your dreams, while the other is, you know, the embodiment of pure, soulless evil. Yes, I realize there was all that Thorn crap in Halloween 5 and Halloween 6, trying to give Michael a reason for being so bad, but quite frankly I'm ignoring that stuff.
Jason's Backstory
